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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 1, Sophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say about self-love?
(a) It is the goal of growth.
(b) It is healthy and natural.
(c) It is a beast.
(d) It is a necessary stage.

2. What does Rousseau say a man should have learned in his first 25 years?
(a) How to manage his passions.
(b) How to use his time.
(c) How to work in a craft.
(d) How to defend himself.

3. How does Rousseau answer Emile's question about where babies come from?
(a) In polite euphemisms.
(b) He refuses to answer the question until Emile is older.
(c) Without describing sexual activity but without being deceitful.
(d) In explicit detail.

4. How can woman exercise cruelty in her turn, in Rousseau's opinion?
(a) By making a man wonder who is visiting during the day.
(b) By giving her babies away for adoption.
(c) By bringing another man's baby into the marriage.
(d) By humiliating the man with her low behavior.

5. What does Rousseau say changes the effects of women on young men?
(a) Existential despair.
(b) Love poetry.
(c) Violent rages.
(d) Hormonal flushes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rousseau suggest telling students about where babies come from?

2. What does Rousseau say is cruel and unjust in a man's behavior?

3. What observation does Rousseau make about the world in the beginning of Book 4 Chapter 1?

4. What change does a man experience at his second birth?

5. What does Rousseau say ensures interdependence of man and woman?

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